I often get asked the question - ''Why would a dropship business owner need wholesale buying power in the first place?''  While this blog, and The Shipper as a business model, puts a lot of focus and drive in growing the dropshipping part of the company, we ALSO can help a small business owner (or large) find the wholesale buying power they ...

The Problem:  Being in this industry for the last several years has been helpful for me in finding potential problems online with so called ''wholesale'' companies.  One of the main problems when searching the engines for wholesalers (that I see) is getting a list of companies that are not true wholesalers.  These companies just ...

At The Shipper we offer a bulk wholesale directory list that will give you access to companies that will sell you products at bulk (more then one at a time) at a much better price then say a drop shipper.  There are some benefits, and there are some downfalls to doing business this way. Let me explain:   If you have the money to ...

I heard this question asked today and thought I would put in a really quick post about it.  Almost 100% of the time if you are working with a true wholesaler you will not be able to get them to drop ship products for you.  Most of the time the reason you are using a wholesaler is to buy in bulk and get better prices, so the wholesaler will not ...

Just wanted to do a reminder post for those looking for suppliers that will dropship.  When I am chatting with people I realize one of the things they confuse and think is that a wholesale company, and a dropshipper is the same.  Not all companies who wholesale will dropship products for you.  So you may find a really ...